DELHI DURING THE MUNTINY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1524, 26 March 1886, Page 3

DELHI DURING THE MUNTINY.

It is related of the printer! employed in the Delhi newspaper office that, while carnage was going on all round them, they stuck to their work till the last, and sent forth the intelligence of their approaching death. With one exception they all perished—the sole survivor owing his escape to a plentiful use of printing ink, with which he disguised his face, and to a passable knowledge of the native language. The great magasine at Delhi wis in charge of lieutenant Willoughby, who had with him two other lieutenants and six European soldiers. This handful of heroes defended their post for three or four hours, and then finding it do longer tenable, fired a train j and, with a roar heard 20 miles sway, near* Iv one-half of the enormous structure was blown into the sir* Only four of those brave fellows escaped, the others falling in the explosion. All day long the pursuit and slaughter of Europe* ans was continued, little children being butchered before their mothers' eyes under circumstances of peculiar brutal* ity. 9o help came from Meerut, al* though even at the close of the second da/ the force remaining there idle could have crushed the mutiny. On the 16th of May, six days after the out* break, fifty Christian men, women, and children, who had been gathered into the fort by some of the less sanguinary of the mutineers, were mustered into the principal courtyard and murdered in cold blood. Their mangled bodies were then heaped on bullock-carts and thrown into the river—not a single European being left alive in Dew. The Mogul Empire seemed in a fair way of restoration. How this was frustrated is a matter of history,— Ontm • Month,